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The Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 5

Every episode of Laverne & Shirley Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 5!

Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:ABC
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26
Avg. Rating
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Shotgun Wedding (II)" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley" season 5. It scored 8.1/10 based on 100 votes. Directed by Joel Zwick and written by Judy Pioli, it aired on 9/13/1979. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "One Heckuva Note".

  • Shotgun Wedding (II)
    8.1/10(100)

    #1 - Shotgun Wedding (II)

    Season 5 Episode 1

    Aired 9/13/1979

    The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: Judy Pioli

  • One Heckuva Note
    7.9/10(89)

    #2 - One Heckuva Note

    Season 5 Episode 2

    Aired 9/20/1979

    Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fat City Holiday
    8.4/10(93)

    #3 - Fat City Holiday

    Season 5 Episode 3

    Aired 9/27/1979

    The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Upstairs, Downstairs
    8.2/10(88)

    #4 - Upstairs, Downstairs

    Season 5 Episode 4

    Aired 10/4/1979

    A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
    7.9/10(89)

    #5 - What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 10/18/1979

    Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • You've Pushed Me Too Far
    8.6/10(89)

    #6 - You've Pushed Me Too Far

    Season 5 Episode 6

    Aired 10/25/1979

    Lenny refuses to have anything to do with Squiggy after he pushes him into a garbage can from their second floor apartment window. Laverne and Shirley get the two friends to make up in Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wedding
    8.6/10(88)

    #7 - The Wedding

    Season 5 Episode 7

    Aired 11/1/1979

    Edna accepts a marriage proposal from Frank, who waited to the last minute to ask her. Laverne and Shirley end up singing at their wedding in an all-black gospel choir.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Bad Girls
    8.3/10(97)

    #8 - Bad Girls

    Season 5 Episode 8

    Aired 11/8/1979

    No description available

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • You're in the Army, Now (1)
    8.0/10(92)

    #9 - You're in the Army, Now (1)

    Season 5 Episode 9

    Aired 11/15/1979

    Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • You're in the Army, Now (2)
    8.0/10(88)

    #10 - You're in the Army, Now (2)

    Season 5 Episode 10

    Aired 11/15/1979

    Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Take Two, They're Small
    8.5/10(91)

    #11 - Take Two, They're Small

    Season 5 Episode 11

    Aired 11/22/1979

    Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show
    8.1/10(95)

    #12 - The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show

    Season 5 Episode 12

    Aired 12/6/1979

    Laverne and Shirley are in charge of selecting the acts for the 4th annual Shotz talent show. It starts off with Frank auditioning in Laverne and Shirley's apartment showing them his ventriloquist act. He produces a Laverne doll which cracks Shirley up but Laverne is none too impressed until Frank produces a Shirley doll which Laverne starts laughing at, but now Shirley doesn't find it so funny. They convince Frank that his act is just too good for the show and that he should MC it as usual. He agrees as he doesn't want to show up all the other acts. We then see Laverne and Shirley auditioning acts at Shotz. Upon the end of each act when Laverne and Shirley ask the never seen Mr.Shotz what he thought he of the last act, all we hear is a raspberry. Lenny and Squiggy sings a number called ""I Knew I Should Have Listened To Momma"" which also gets a raspberry. Carmine and Edna come in singing ""Yankee Doodle"" and tap dancing. Mr.Shotz loves this and tells the girls that he wants this year's

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Testing, Testing
    8.6/10(89)

    #13 - Testing, Testing

    Season 5 Episode 13

    Aired 12/13/1979

    Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Not Quite South of the Border
    9.0/10(111)

    #14 - Not Quite South of the Border

    Season 5 Episode 14

    Aired 1/7/1980

    The girls can't wait to go on a vacation to Mexico. Unfortunately when they get there, they find half of their hotel room missing and that they have to share the room with another woman.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • You Oughta Be in Pictures
    8.4/10(91)

    #15 - You Oughta Be in Pictures

    Season 5 Episode 15

    Aired 1/14/1980

    The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film. Shirley begs Laverne to come and tryout for an acting part in a movie. Laverne agrees and they get to the studio. They subsequently get cast as the two stars of the feature. They have to go and get fitted for wardrobe and when they come out they're wearing cheap, gaudy costumes that Laverne immediately asks if they can keep. They're introduced to their leading men, upon which Shirley finds out that her leading man is gay. The director starts filming the movie and only then the girls find out they're playing hookers in an army hygiene film. When it's all over, we find Laverne and Shirley miserable at home. Then Lenny and Squiggy enter telling them they've just been to see the premiere of the film. Laverne and Shirley asks if anyone recognized them as the hookers. Lenny tells them not to worry, as no one recognized them, but he had to tell everybody it was the

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • The Beatnik Show
    8.2/10(95)

    #16 - The Beatnik Show

    Season 5 Episode 16

    Aired 1/21/1980

    Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to being her old self again.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • The Right to Light
    8.7/10(87)

    #17 - The Right to Light

    Season 5 Episode 17

    Aired 1/28/1980

    To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Why Did the Fireman . . .
    8.9/10(125)

    #18 - Why Did the Fireman . . .

    Season 5 Episode 18

    Aired 2/4/1980

    Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • The Collector
    8.3/10(86)

    #19 - The Collector

    Season 5 Episode 19

    Aired 2/11/1980

    The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
    8.8/10(112)

    #20 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)

    Season 5 Episode 20

    Aired 2/26/1980

    The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
    8.8/10(102)

    #21 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)

    Season 5 Episode 21

    Aired 3/4/1980

    Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • Survival Test
    8.1/10(87)

    #22 - Survival Test

    Season 5 Episode 22

    Aired 3/11/1980

    Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.

    Director: Joel Zwick

    Writer: N/A

  • The Duke of Squiggmann
    8.2/10(90)

    #23 - The Duke of Squiggmann

    Season 5 Episode 23

    Aired 3/25/1980

    Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.

    Director: Penny Marshall

    Writer: N/A

  • Antonio, the Amazing
    8.2/10(94)

    #24 - Antonio, the Amazing

    Season 5 Episode 24

    Aired 4/1/1980

    Laverne and Shirley are returning from a friend's wedding to find a strange man lying asleep on their sofa. Laverne arms herself with a baseball bat and is about to hit the guy when he turns over and she can't bring herself to hit him as she thinks he's gorgeous. She's just about to kiss him to wake him up when Frank and Edna informs the girls that this is Laverne's cousin from Italy called Antonio. Laverne is miserable that she can't date her cousin, but Shirley exclaims ""He's not my cousin"" and goes for it, only to be reminded by Edna that she's got Carmine. Anotnio greets everybody and announces he's come to America to make his fortune. Antonio is exercising with Lenny and Squiggy, who are teaching him some bad habits, like biting your palm if you like something. The boys leave to go collect hair from the local barber shop and Carmine comes in. Carmine is letting Antonio stay with him while he's in Milwaukee and gives Antonio a t-shirt to wear advertising his dance studio on the bac

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Diner
    8.5/10(136)

    #25 - The Diner

    Season 5 Episode 25

    Aired 5/6/1980

    Lenny inherits a greasy spoon diner called 'Laslo's Place', they immediately rename it ""Dead Laslo's Place"". Because Laverne and Shirley are desperate for work, they get hired to cook and waitress the diner. The girls get run off their feet and Shirley ends up running out of the diner screaming in frustration. Frank offers to buy the restaurant from Lenny, which he does, so now Frank has 2 restaurants.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A